THE OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE 1250-1918 BY ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH, SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE BINDING

THE OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE 1250-1918 BY ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH, SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE BINDING

£225.00

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[QUILLER-COUCH, ARTHUR (editor)]. The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1955.

NEW EDITION. Leather-bound; hardcover; 16mo (16.5 x 10 x 2.5 cm); pp. [xxxii], 1166, [1]. English text printed on India paper. Exquisitely bound in full morocco gilt by Sangorski and Sutcliffe (signed in gilt on front turn-in); all page edges gilt; marbled endpapers; half-title; rear index. Condition: NEAR FINE. Binding tight and secure, the joints and hinges intact. Trivial shelf wear to extremities. Interior very well-preserved. Without previous ownership markings.

Notes: A reprint with corrections of Arthur Quiller-Couch's collection of English poetry, first published in 1900, here presented in a most handsome signed binding. "This volume soon became the standard anthology of English verse and sold nearly a million volumes during Quiller-Couch's lifetime" (ODNB).